Former Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga told child soldiers to get women, cows, and vehicles, reassuring them that “everything belongs to soldiers,” according to testimony heard today at his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). A witness who worked with several former child soldiers made this claim today while testifying about one of the…
Judges in the Thomas Lubanga war crimes trial have directed prosecutors to reveal to the defense details of the professional backgrounds of the intermediaries they used in gathering evidence against the accused. At least two of the intermediaries will testify in the trial at the request of judges. An appeal by the Office of The…
The main highlight of the Thomas Lubanga trial this week was the presentation by the defense of several documents, which allegedly showed that at least seven prosecution witnesses who claimed to have been child soldiers lied about their identities. The documents included school reports and registers from the institutions which various prosecution witnesses claimed they…
Thomas Lubanga’s defense has today presented to court various documents that it claimed showed that at least seven prosecution witnesses, who told court that they were former child soldiers, lied about their identities or the schools they attended. The documents presented included several records from schools in Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
Prosecutors in the war crimes trial of Thomas Lubanga are set to interview a former suspect in the war crimes investigations by the Office of The Prosecutor (OTP) at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Judge Adrian Fulford on Tuesday gave prosecutors the greenlight to interview the suspect, who goes by the name of ‘Witness 3’.…
A prosecution witness, who was unable to testify in the Thomas Lubanga war crimes trial last year due to ill health, will give evidence next Monday, according to presiding judge Adrian Fulford. ‘Witness 297’, a former child soldier in the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), the militia group that Mr. Lubanga is alleged to have…
A defense witness who was introduced today will give all his evidence behind closed doors. Defense lawyer Caroline Buteau made this pronouncement shortly after the witness – the 12th called by Thomas Lubanga’s defense – took oath. “In view of the protective measures that have been requested by the witness and in view of the…
Judges in the trial of alleged former Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga have today ordered prosecutors to reveal to the defense the identity of one of their intermediaries who has been accused of coaching witnesses. Judge Adrian Fulford said the judges had decided that the defense was entitled to know the identity of some of…
The Thomas Lubanga defense today called their third witness who testified that although he was never in the armed forces, he and other boys who had equally never served in any military group were paraded before some unnamed people as former child soldiers. The witness, Claude Nyéki Django, said a man known as Dudu took…
A witness today told the war crimes trial of Thomas Lubanga that intermediaries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave him US$200 as payment for convincing his nephew to give false testimony against the accused. The boy subsequently testified as a prosecution witness and claimed that he was a former child soldier in Lubanga’s militia…
Thomas Lubanga on trial at the International Criminal Court. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is the first person to be tried by the International Criminal Court. A former rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lubanga is accused of conscripting, enlisting, and using child soldiers. More
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